Yun-Fei Ji

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Yun-Fei Ji is a Chinese painter. Born in Beijing in 1963, he now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He paints on handmade rice paper with translucent ink or paint based on natural pigments, using ancient techniques, including calligraphy. His subject is the failure of the Communist utopia in China.

[edit] Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2006: “Water that floats the boat can also sink it”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA.
  • 2005: "Great news comes from the collective farm", Zeno X Storage, Borgerhout, Belgium.
  • 2004: "The Empty City", Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA and The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA (USA)
  • 2002: "The Old One Hundred Names", Zeno X Gallery and Pratt Institute, New York, USA.

[edit] Selected group exhibitions

He has works in the collection of The Drawing Center in New York. He was a recipient of the 2005/6 Jules Guerin Rome Prize Fellowship.

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